No you're not. It's called supply and demand. Supply is low, so everyone is sold out. Hence they can raise the price on the remaining units. I wouldn't buy a 290/x until there's cards with custom coolers.

The cooler on my 7950 just took a dump. I slapped a casefan on it and it works about as good as the stock ones did. Eesh. Still, I'm pretty bummed that the coolers aren't lasting that long. It seems to be a hot chip and the R9 series seems even worse. I just don't think I've ever seen a jump like that before. The 770 can be found for a pretty fair price now...

I guess I'll just see how far my 7950 takes me.

I have a quad IPS setup now, so I'd be willing to look at a crossfire or SLI setup in a few months. Maybe with some christmas money...

THIS is what is blocking my new build. I have all the components in except the GPU, which is ironic because I only planned on replacing it, then found some money that would pretty much give me a new system. I was going to get a 280X or 290 and now the only interesting thing is a Gigabyte Nvidia 770 since the AMD cards are out of stock or outrageously overpriced.

mdk77777 wrote:well, the good news is that bitcoin and litecoin are crashing.

Those prices were never real to begin with, so that's unsurprising.

This is probably verging on R & P, but if all the exchanges have waiting lists of months, or require you to first buy the very thing you're trying to sell as "verification," one's eyebrow should begin to rise... And, as I said, the exchanges were always the weak point. All China did was say that you can't exchange it for CNY and *poof* there goes 40%.

Just looked today when I was asked for GPU recommendations... I can't believe the cheapest 290 on Newegg is a full $100 above MSRP! The cheapest 290 with an aftermarket cooler costs more than the 290X @ MSRP. Oh, and the cheapest 290X with an aftermarket cooler costs as much as a 780 Ti.

Newegg must be in heaven to have such high price premiums 2 months after the GPUs launched. I had to tell my friend to hold off on his GPU purchase, he wouldn't have known the 290 was a full $100 above its launch price.

I'm still wondering if their little dustup with Global Foundries is the real cause of the lacking supply of both the new cards and Kaveri procs. The timing is just too convenient and no one ever talks about it.

Savyg wrote:I'm still wondering if their little dustup with Global Foundries is the real cause of the lacking supply of both the new cards and Kaveri procs. The timing is just too convenient and no one ever talks about it.

GloFo has never made a single GPU part for AMD, that's 100% TSMC. Issues with Kaveri, however, are in GloFo's domain.

Savyg wrote:I'm still wondering if their little dustup with Global Foundries is the real cause of the lacking supply of both the new cards and Kaveri procs. The timing is just too convenient and no one ever talks about it.

GloFo has never made a single GPU part for AMD, that's 100% TSMC. Issues with Kaveri, however, are in GloFo's domain.

I was under the impression they were in the process of migrating the video chips as well. I guess not.

MtGox crashed.Lots of miners very very unhappy.Media frenzy of bad publicity for cryptocurrency.Suddenly nobody is sure if they want to join the fray and invest $25000 into 36 R9-290X cards, so supply can actually meet demand again.

Some people ask me why I have always enclosed my signature in spoiler tags; There is a good reason for that, but I can't elaborate without giving away the plot twist.